Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Public option vs co-op's

The public option died because it could have had the effect of driving health insurance companies out of business. Unless enough people like me paid extra for private insurance, the insurance industry would simply have to move on. There are many people out there who would see the demise of HMO's as a good thing. But I think that this administration probably realized that it isn't ready to become the sole provider of healthcare to an obese nation.

We should give health care co-op's a shot. Unlike a business, a co-op does not seek to make a profit; unlike a government, it cannot run on a deficit indefinitely or print its own money. Plus, you are free to leave a co-op at any time. To switch health insurance companies, you often have to get a different job. To switch governments, you pretty much have to move. A co-op measures its success solely by the quality of service that it provides to its members, and can continue to operate effectively no matter who wins Ohio and Florida in 2012.

The best way that Congress can move this along is to make all health insurance payments tax deductible. As things stand now, a company health plan is tax deductible, but a individual health plan is not.

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said...

Hey, here's an idea...How about the general government sticking to things that it is AUTHORIZED to do, and quit screwing up everything it touches? Maybe stop restricting an indiviual's freedom to purchase health care insurance from beyond the state line?

May not help much. This is the only government in western world, as far as I am aware of, that extends its power grip on its citizens living abroad. One would have to give up citizenship, but even that may not help, as the example of that British guy who has never been in US but is requested for extradition to US for hacking US-based institutions online from UK.

Congress is the group that restricted access to health care beyond a state's border. That means if the state you live in requires health care providers to include coverage for say, breast implants, YOU get to pay to cover all those who would like to purchase such coverage.

Why should an individual be restricted to only purchase health care insurance from ONE of these united States?

I say we ought to open the market up to MORE COMPETITION...

MORE COMPETION= MORE CHOICES= LOWER COSTS= LESS GOVERNMENT INTRUSION= LOWER TAXES

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